| John Gardner Wilkinson - 1841 - 528 páginas
...of private individuals. MOURNING FOR THE DEAD. "When any one diedt, all the females of his family, covering their heads and faces with mud, and leaving...streets, with their bosoms exposed, striking themselves t, and uttering loud lamentations." § Their friends and relations joined them as they went, uniting... | |
| sir John Gardner Wilkinson - 1841 - 532 páginas
...of private individuals. MOURNING FOR THE DEAD. "When any one diedt, all the females of his family, covering their heads and faces with mud, and leaving...streets, with their bosoms exposed, striking themselves t, and uttering loud lamentations." § Their friends and relations joined them as they went, uniting... | |
| 1842 - 432 páginas
...Among them the following may be briefly referred to.f When any one died, the females of the family, covering their heads and faces with mud, and leaving the body in the house, ran through the streets, striking themselves, and uttering loud lamentations. Hired mourners were employed to increase these... | |
| Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg - 1843 - 330 páginas
...celebrated. When a man died in a house, that is, one of rank, all the females of his family covering their faces with mud, and leaving the body in the house ran through the streets, girded up, and striking their bare breasts and uttering loud lamentations. AH their female relations... | |
| Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg - 1843 - 320 páginas
...celebrated. When a man died in a house, that is, one of rank, all the females of his family covering their faces with mud, and leaving the body in the house ran through the streets, girded up, and striking their bare breasts and uttering loud lamentations. All their female relations... | |
| George Fisk - 1845 - 562 páginas
...Egypt, when any one died, all the females of his family, covering their heads and faces with dust and mud, and leaving the body in the house, ran through the streets, striking their breasts, and uttering loud lamentations. Their friends and relations joined them as... | |
| George Townsend - 1849 - 968 páginas
...the body in the house, rail through the streets, with their bosoms exposed, striking themselves 3 , and uttering loud lamentations: their friends and...of respect to his memory*. Hired mourners were also cmployed to add, by their feigned demonstrations 5 of grief, to the real lamentations of their family,... | |
| George Fisk - 1850 - 482 páginas
...Egypt, when any one died, all the females of his family, covering their heads and faces with dust and mud, and leaving the body in the house, ran through the streets, striking their breasts, and uttering loud lamentations. Their friends and relations joined them as... | |
| Sir John Gardner Wilkinson - 1854 - 466 páginas
...portrayed there, as in the sepulchres of Thebes. "When any one died, all the females of his family, covering their heads and faces with mud, and leaving...same demonstrations of grief; and when the deceased wag a person of consideration, many strangers accompanied them, out of respect to his memory. Hired... | |
| John Kitto - 1854 - 1028 páginas
...viii. 2). When any one died in ancient Egypt the females of his family covered their faces with mud, ran through the streets with their bosoms exposed,...striking themselves, and uttering loud lamentations; they were joined as they went by neighbours and friends, and, if the deceased was of consequence, by... | |
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